Shin splints: Painful to have and to treat

Comprehensive Therapy

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 192-195

  Story, Julie ^b   Cymet, Tyler Childs ^a  

^a SINAI HOSPITAL OF BALTIMORE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BONE SCINTISCANNING; BONE TUMOR; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EXERCISE; HUMAN; LEG PAIN; LIPOMA; MEDIAL TIBIAL STRESS SYNDROME; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORTHOTICS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REPETITIVE STRAIN INJURY; REST; SPORT INJURY; STRESS FRACTURE; X RAY ANALYSIS;

CUMULATIVE TRAUMA DISORDERS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FRACTURES, STRESS; HUMANS; REST; TIBIAL FRACTURES;

EID: 34248192836     PISSN: 00988243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1385/COMP:32:3:192     Document Type: Article

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